NEW DELHI: Japanese engineering firm Mitsubishi Electrical Corp. has stated it’s going to spend roughly ₹220 crore in its subsidiary Mitsubishi Electrical India Pvt. Ltd. to arrange a brand new manufacturing facility within the nation to fabricate inverters and manufacturing facility automation (FA) management system merchandise.
The manufacturing facility might be situated in Pune, Maharashtra, and might be unfold throughout 15,400 sq. meters. Operations are anticipated to begin in December subsequent 12 months.
In keeping with the corporate, the brand new manufacturing facility will broaden its “capabilities to fulfill the rising demand” in India. It stated the Indian market is rising yearly at round 8%, pushed by demand from sectors akin to cars, meals and beverage, prescribed drugs, information centres, and textiles.
The Japanese firm assured that the brand new manufacturing facility will use extremely environment friendly air-con techniques and LED lighting consistent with the corporate’s carbon neutrality targets. It’s going to additionally re-use wastewater by way of underground filtration therapy and greening to fulfill sustainable improvement targets.
Mitsubishi Electrical began its FA management techniques enterprise in India within the mid-Nineties. In 2012, it acquired Pune-based Messung Group, certainly one of its FA distribution companions in India. It strengthened its enterprise in India by constructing a neighborhood engineering workforce and increasing service and help capabilities. The corporate began manufacturing in India in 2013.
Mitsubishi Electrical’s FA product lineup consists of movement controllers, energy monitoring merchandise, inverters, electrical discharge machines, laser processing machines, computerized numerical controllers, and industrial robots.
Its India enterprise consists of improvement, manufacture, gross sales, and after-sales service of FA management system merchandise; gross sales and after-sales providers for air conditioners and semiconductors; and manufacture, gross sales, and after-sales service {of electrical} merchandise for railways.
Different international engineering corporations have additionally arrange manufacturing vegetation in India. As an illustration, in February, US-based Emerson introduced that it’s going to open a 1,45,000 sq. ft manufacturing facility in Chennai, Tamil Nadu to fabricate automation merchandise utilized in key industrial segments.
The covid-19 outbreak has additionally fueled demand for industrial automation as corporations wish to automate processes and keep away from any main disruption because of future emergencies.
Supply: Live Mint